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Andrew Yang Podcast

The Future of Energy: Why Texas froze over

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of The Future Of, Zach sits down with three energy experts, Julio Friedmann, Melissa Lott, and David Freed. Together, they discuss innovation in energy, the human cost of climate change, and the singular path individuals, governments, and corporations must take to achieve carbon neutrality.

Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0ITy9uOya8

Read Dr. Lott's paper on health and climate change: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1479102/1/Colbourn_final%20commission%20-%20word.pdf

Follow David Freed: https://twitter.com/davidafreed | https://netpower.com/

Follow Julio Friedmann: https://twitter.com/CarbonWrangler | https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/dr-julio-friedmann

Follow Melissa Lott: https://twitter.com/mclott | https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/dr-melissa-c-lott

Follow Zach Graumann: https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann | https://instagram.com/zachgraumann

Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/AndrewYang | https://instagram.com/andrewyang

Transcript

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0:00.0

One of the things that I think slows us down and I see slowing us down is conversations where we say or a lot.

0:06.1

So I like solar or wind. I like solar or natural gas with CCS.

0:10.6

I like electrical vehicles or I like your carbon cement.

0:14.0

You know, whatever the examples are. I like one thing.

0:16.4

We step back and we switch that to an end conversation.

0:19.8

This and this and this. I'm for all these things that get us to that goal.

0:23.6

One of the things I think I learned incredibly well at that power is,

0:27.3

we had some fantastic scientists, PhDs, AlphaWazoo, probably too many of them.

0:32.8

What we learned early on was that they weren't the people to build and to maintain and to operate.

0:39.6

We needed to build all that tent big enough for all those people to be under and leverage their expertise.

0:45.2

Because our smartest people had no idea when it came to how to maintain pumps and valves and compressors.

0:50.7

And all of these other things that go into maintaining a coal plant or maintaining a steel plant.

0:56.0

It gives us, I think, an opportunity to be generous with each other again.

1:01.0

To say we know we need to spend money, we know we need to try lots of stuff.

1:05.1

We know one of us alone is not going to do the job.

1:09.5

So let's all work together and do this incredibly important thing.

1:39.5

Welcome back and on today's Yang Speaks folks.

1:49.4

Texas froze over. The entire state covered with snow.

1:53.4

And we need to talk about this.

1:54.8

So we're going to continue our limited series on the future of, and this is the future of energy.

2:01.1

Because when your most southern state or one of your most southern states known for its desert is covered in snow,

2:08.3

you need to figure out why and what's going to happen.

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